--- title: "Connect Timesheet to Zoho Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Absence\" fires in Timesheet, your agent runs \"Add Invoice Attachment\" in Zoho Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-zoho-inventory" --- # Connect Timesheet to Zoho Inventory When **New Absence** fires in [Timesheet](https://apiant.ai/connections/timesheet), your agent runs **Add Invoice Attachment** in [Zoho Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Timesheet **7** triggers Timesheet **53** actions Zoho Inventory **64** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Timesheet and Zoho Inventory to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Timesheet can start in Zoho Inventory - When **New Absence** in Timesheet then **Add Invoice Attachment** in Zoho Inventory - When **New Project** in Timesheet then **Add Invoice Comment** in Zoho Inventory Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Timesheet and Zoho Inventory ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 117 actions - Trigger **New Absence** Triggered when a new absence is requested or recorded in the chosen Timesheet organization. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Rate** Triggered when a new pay rate is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Tag** Triggered when a new tag is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Task** Triggered when a new tracked time entry is recorded in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Team** Triggered when a new team is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Todo** Triggered when a new to-do is created in Timesheet. - Action **Approve Absence** Approves a pending absence request in a Timesheet organization. Returns the updated absence, including its new status and who approved it. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense on a Timesheet task, with an amount, date and optional receipt. Returns the new expense with its ID. - Action **Create Note** Creates a note on a Timesheet task, with text and an optional attachment. Returns the new note with its ID. - Action **Create Organization** Creates a new organization (team workspace) in Timesheet. Returns the new organization with its ID. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Timesheet, optionally with a client, default billing rate and team. Returns the new project with its ID. - Action **Create Rate** Creates a pay rate in Timesheet, such as an overtime multiplier or a bonus amount. Returns the new rate with its ID. - Action **Create Reminder** Creates a reminder in Timesheet on a one-off or recurring schedule. Returns the new reminder with its ID and next fire time. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a tag in Timesheet that can be applied to time entries. Returns the new tag with its ID. - Action **Create Task** Creates a time entry (task) on a Timesheet project, with start and end times and optional tags, rate and mileage. Returns the new entry with its ID and duration. - Action **Create Team** Creates a team inside a Timesheet organization. Returns the new team with its ID. - Action **Create Todo** Creates a to-do on a Timesheet project, with an optional due date, assignees and time estimate. Returns the new to-do with its ID. - Action **Delete Expense** Deletes an expense from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the expense was removed. - Action **Delete Note** Deletes a note from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the note was removed. - Action **Delete Organization** Deletes an organization from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the organization was removed. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the project was removed. - Action **Delete Rate** Deletes a pay rate from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the rate was removed. - Action **Delete Reminder** Deletes a reminder from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the reminder was removed. - Action **Delete Tag** Deletes a tag from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the tag was removed. - Action **Delete Task** Deletes a time entry from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the entry was removed. - Action **Delete Team** Deletes a team from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the team was removed. - Action **Delete Todo** Deletes a to-do from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the to-do was removed. - Action **Find Absence** Searches absences in a Timesheet organization by member, contract, type, status or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Expense** Searches Timesheet expenses by text, time entry, organization or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Note** Searches Timesheet notes by text, time entry, organization or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Organization** Looks up a Timesheet organization by name and returns its ID and details. Timesheet has no organization search endpoint, so this reads your organizations and matches the name, ignoring upper/lower case. - Action **Find Project** Searches Timesheet projects by name, team or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Rate** Searches Timesheet pay rates by name, team, project or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Reminder** Looks up a Timesheet reminder by name and returns its ID and schedule. Timesheet has no reminder search endpoint, so this reads your reminders and matches the name, ignoring upper/lower case. - Action **Find Tag** Searches Timesheet tags by name, team, project or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Task** Searches Timesheet time entries by text, project, to-do, team or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Team** Searches Timesheet teams by name or organization, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Todo** Searches Timesheet to-dos by title, project, status or assignee, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Get Current Timer** Returns the state of your current Timesheet timer — whether it is running, paused or stopped, and the time entry it is tracking. - Action **Get Project** Returns one Timesheet project by ID, including its client, settings and tracked totals. - Action **Get Rate** Returns one Timesheet pay rate by ID, including its multiplier and extra amount. - Action **Get Tag** Returns a single tag by its ID, including its name, colour, archived state, owning team and total tracked time. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single tracked time entry by its ID, including its description, start and end times, duration, billing flags, project, rate, member and tags. - Action **Get Team** Returns a single team by its ID, including its name, description, colour, owning organization, and project and member counts. - Action **Pause Timer** Pauses the running timer, starting a break. Returns the timer with its new paused state. - Action **Resume Timer** Resumes a paused timer, ending the current break. Returns the timer with its new running state. - Action **Send Report** Generates a timesheet report for the chosen period and emails it to the given address. - Action **Start Timer** Starts the timer on a project, creating a running time entry. Returns the timer and the entry it is tracking. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the running timer and closes out the time entry it was tracking. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing expense's description, date, amount, refund status or attached receipt. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Note** Updates an existing note's text, date or attachment. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Organization** Updates an organization's name, description, image, colour or AI chat setting. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project's name, client, office, colour, billing defaults, salary or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Rate** Updates an existing pay rate's name, multiplier, extra amount, enabled or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Reminder** Updates an existing reminder's title, prompt, message template or schedule. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Tag** Updates an existing tag's name, colour or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing tracked time entry's project, description, times, billing flags, rate or tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Team** Updates an existing team's name, description, image, colour or salary visibility. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Todo** Updates an existing to-do's title, details, status, due date, assignees or time estimate. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Add Credit Note Comment** Tool to add a comment to a credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to add notes or comments to a specific credit note for record-keeping or audit purposes. - Action **Add Invoice Attachment** Tool to upload an attachment to a specific invoice. Use when you need to add a file attachment to an invoice. - Action **Add Invoice Comment** Tool to add a comment to a specific invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add notes, updates, or internal/client-visible comments to an invoice. - Action **Apply Credits To Invoices** Tool to apply credits from a credit note to one or more invoices. Use when you need to apply available credits from a credit note to settle invoice balances. - Action **Bulk Delete Sales Orders** Tool to bulk delete sales orders. Use this to remove multiple sales orders at once. - Action **Bulk Email Invoices** Sends multiple invoices by email to a contact in a single API call. Use this tool when you need to email up to 10 invoices at once to a customer. The invoices will be scheduled for delivery and the contact will receive individual emails for each invoice. If contact_id is not provided, the action will automatically fetch the customer_id from the first invoice and use that as the contact. - Action **Bulk Export Invoices** Tool to bulk export invoices as a single PDF. Use when you need to download multiple invoices in a single file for archiving or sharing. - Action **Bulk Print Invoices** Generate a consolidated PDF containing multiple invoices for printing or archiving. Use this tool to download one or more invoices as a single PDF document. The PDF can contain up to 25 invoices and is useful for bulk printing, record keeping, or sharing with customers. - Action **Bulk Print Packages** Tool to bulk print package slips as a consolidated PDF. Use when you need a PDF file of multiple package slips for printing or archiving. - Action **Create Bill** Tool to create a bill in Zoho Inventory. Use when a vendor supplies goods/services on credit and you need to track the amount owed. - Action **Create Contact** Tool to create a new contact (customer or vendor) in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new business relationship to your organization. - Action **Create Contact Person** Tool to create a contact person. Use when you need to add a new contact person to an existing contact in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Create Credit Note** Tool to create a new credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to issue a credit note to a customer for returns, refunds, or adjustments. - Action **Create Customer Payment** Tool to create a customer payment in Zoho Inventory. Use when recording a payment received from a customer against one or more invoices. - Action **Create Invoice** Tool to create a new invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to invoice a customer for products or services sold. - Action **Create Item** Tool to create a new item in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new product or service to your inventory catalog. - Action **Create Item Group** Tool to create an item group in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to create a new item group with multiple items that share common attributes like size or color variations. - Action **Create Package** Tool to create a package for a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to prepare items from a sales order for shipping. - Action **Create Purchase Order** Tool to create a purchase order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to order goods or services from a vendor. - Action **Create Sales Order** Tool to create a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when a customer places an order for products and you need to track the sale before invoicing. - Action **Deactivate Contact** Tool to mark a contact as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate a contact without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item** Tool to mark an item as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item Group** Tool to mark an item group as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item group and all its items without permanently deleting them. - Action **Delete Contact** Tool to delete a contact. Use when you need to remove an existing contact from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Contact Person** Tool to delete a contact person. Use when you need to remove a contact person from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Invoice** Tool to delete an invoice. Use when you need to remove an existing invoice that has no payments or credits applied. - Action **Delete Invoice Attachment** Tool to delete an invoice attachment. Use when you need to remove a file attached to an invoice. - Action **Delete Invoice Comment** Delete a specific comment from an invoice in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Delete Item** Tool to delete an item. Use when you need to remove an existing inventory item after confirming it is not referenced in any transactions. - Action **Delete Item Group** Tool to delete an item group. Use to remove an existing item group that is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Item Image** Tool to delete an image associated with an item. Use when you need to remove an item's image after ensuring it's no longer required. - Action **Delete Package** Tool to delete a package. Use when you need to remove an existing package created for a sales order. - Action **Delete Sales Order** Tool to delete a sales order. Use when you need to remove an existing sales order. - Action **Disable Payment Reminder** Tool to disable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to stop automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Email Contact** Tool to email a contact in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to send an email to a specific contact with a custom subject and body. - Action **Email Contact Statement** Tool to email a statement of transactions to a contact. Use when you need to send account statements to customers or vendors. - Action **Email Credit Note** Tool to email a credit note to customers. Use when you need to send a credit note via email to recipients. - Action **Email Invoice** Tool to email a specific invoice to customers. Use when you need to send an invoice via email, with optional attachments. - Action **Enable Invoice Payment Reminder** Tool to enable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to activate automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Get Contact** Tool to retrieve a specific contact by ID from Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get detailed information about a customer or vendor contact. - Action **Get Contact Address** Tool to get contact address. Use when you need to retrieve address information for a specific contact. - Action **Get Credit Note** Tool to retrieve a credit note by ID. Use when you need to fetch detailed information about a specific credit note. - Action **Get Credit Note Email Content** Tool to get credit note email content including subject, body, recipients, and available templates. Use when you need to preview or retrieve the email content for a credit note before sending it. - Action **Get Current User** Tool to get details of the currently authenticated user in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve user profile information, permissions, or validate the authenticated user. - Action **Get Invoice** Retrieve the complete details of one existing invoice by invoice ID. - Action **Get Item** Retrieve the complete details of one existing inventory item by item ID. - Action **Get Package** Retrieve complete details for one existing package by ID. - Action **Get Purchase Order** Retrieve complete details for one existing purchase order by ID. - Action **Get Sales Order** Tool to retrieve the details of an existing sales order. Use when you need to get complete information about a sales order including line items, customer details, shipping information, and order status. - Action **Get Variant Opening Stock** Retrieve opening-stock configuration for one item variant. - Action **List Bills** Tool to list bills. Use when needing to fetch bills for an organization. - Action **List Contacts** Tool to list all contacts (customers and vendors) in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to fetch contacts for an organization. - Action **List Credit Notes** Tool to list all credit notes. Use when needing to fetch credit notes for an organization. Supports filtering by status, customer, date, and other criteria. - Action **List Currencies** Tool to list all currencies configured in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve available currencies, exchange rates, or identify the base currency for an organization. - Action **List Customer Payments** List customer payments for a Zoho Inventory organization. - Action **List Invoice Payments** Tool to list all payments received for a specific invoice. Use when you need to retrieve payment records for an invoice. - Action **List Invoices** Tool to list all invoices in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve invoices for an organization. - Action **List Items** Tool to list all items in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve inventory items for an organization. - Action **List Organizations** Tool to list all organizations the user has access to in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get organization IDs or view available organizations. This action does not require organization_id as a parameter. - Action **List Purchase Orders** Tool to list purchase orders. Use when needing to fetch purchase orders for an organization. - Action **List Sales Orders** Tool to list sales orders. Use when needing to fetch sales orders for an organization. - Action **Update Contact** Update editable details for one customer or vendor contact. - Action **Update Item** Update editable catalog details for one existing Zoho Inventory item. - Action **Update Variant Opening Stock** Update organization-level or location-level opening stock for one variant. ## Each app on its own - [ **Timesheet** Timesheet is a mobile Time Tracker which allows you the recording of your working hours with a simple push...](https://apiant.ai/connections/timesheet) - [ **Zoho Inventory** Zoho Inventory helps businesses track stock, manage orders, and sync inventory across multiple sales...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Timesheet - [ **Timesheet to Meteosource** This interactive documentation is using your API key which is filled in automatically, you can find and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-meteosource) - [ **Timesheet to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-google-sheets) - [ **Timesheet to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-stripe) - [ **Timesheet to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-trello) - [ **Timesheet to JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-jira) - [ **Timesheet to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-twilio) ## More into Zoho Inventory - [ **HubSpot to Zoho Inventory** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-zoho-inventory) - [ **Salesforce to Zoho Inventory** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-zoho-inventory) - [ **Slack to Zoho Inventory** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Zoho Inventory when something happens in Timesheet? Any of Zoho Inventory's 64 actions, including Create Bill, Create Contact, Create Contact Person and Create Credit Note. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Inventory to Timesheet? Zoho Inventory has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Timesheet. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Zoho Inventory's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Timesheet or Zoho Inventory? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Timesheet and Zoho Inventory without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.